Thursday, February 18, 2016

It's almost as if Trump sees himself as the Henry VIII of reality TV (though he didn't need any permission for his divorces). He's hinting, not too subtly, that allowing immigration would tie the country closely to Rome, an ugly insinuation given the history of anti-Catholicism in American politics. He wants to divide — Catholics from each other, Americans from Catholics, immigrants from "real" Americans — and create a new American church, one in which he is the divinely ordained King, and reading the Bible is optional.